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AI Horseless Carriages
An essay about bad AI app design
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The most popular blog posts about ai & machine learning on Hacker News. 1,227 posts.
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Why LLMs can't really build software
From the Zed Blog: Writing code is only one part of effective software engineering.
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Claude Code is all you need
I installed Claude Code in June. I'd tried Cursor and Cline and Zed and a few others, but all of them felt clunky to me because I'm used to doing nearly everything in vanilla vim and my terminal. Claude Code was the first tool I tried that felt like it fit into my workflows perfectly rather than needing me to adapt to…
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S1: A $6 R1 competitor?
Principal AI Architect. Creator of open-strix, a harness for building agent teams. Writing about AI architecture, stateful agents, and what happens when you give AI memory.
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Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
Last week, I started working on a new side-project. It’s a standard React app partly made up of run-of-the-mill CRUD views—a perfect fit for LLM-assisted programming. I reasoned that if I could get an LLM to quickly write the boring code for me, I’d have more time to focus on the interesting problems I wanted to solve.
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Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Opus 4.1 is an upgrade over Opus 4 in agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning.
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Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow
From Imagen 4 and Veo 3 to Flow, try these new generative media tools today.
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8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
Secure the modern software stack with Koi. Gain visibility, context, and real-time protection over extensions, MCPs, and autonomous AI agent endpoints.
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AI will make formal verification go mainstream
Much has been said about the effects that AI will have on software development, but there is an angle I haven’t seen talked about: I believe that AI will bring formal verification, which for decades has been a bit of a fringe pursuit, into the software engineering mainstream.
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Mistral 3 family of models released
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI
Explore Gemma 3 270M, a compact, energy-efficient AI model for task-specific fine-tuning, offering strong instruction-following and production-ready quantization.
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Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
Update: This post received a large amount of attention on Hacker News — see the discussion thread.
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Claude Skills
Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills are folders that include instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load when needed. Claude will only access a skill when it's relevant to the task at hand.
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Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
Most coders want AI to write code faster: I want AI to write FASTER CODE.
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I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
How I helped Claude AI extend its capabilities only for the same AI to reject my job application.
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MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
Or: The Day My Toaster Started Taking Phone Calls
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ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML
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I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
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A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs
There’s a lot of hype these days around patterns for building with AI. Agents, memory, RAG, assistants—so many buzzwords! But the reality is, you don’t need fancy techniques or libraries to build useful personal tools with LLMs.
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Claude for Chrome
We're piloting Claude in Chrome to test browser-based AI capabilities while addressing prompt injection risks and building the safety measures needed before wider release.
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Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity
We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower.
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Reflections on OpenAI
I wanted to share my reflections because there's a lot of smoke and noise around what OpenAI is doing, but not a lot of first-hand accounts of what the culture of working there actually feels like .
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Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up
78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.
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Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack
An indirect prompt injection in an implementation blog can manipulate Antigravity to invoke a malicious browser subagent in order to steal credentials and sensitive code from a user’s IDE.
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Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit
DeepSeek R-1 is the most powerful open-source reasoning model that performs on par with OpenAI's o1 model. Run the 1.58-bit Dynamic GGUF version by Unsloth.
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Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world
GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DISCORD Today, we’re announcing Qwen3-Coder, our most agentic code model to date. Qwen3-Coder is available in multiple sizes, but we’re excited to introduce its most powerful variant first: Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct — a 480B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 35B active…
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Vibe code is legacy code
Code that nobody understands is tech debt
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Writing a good Claude.md
`CLAUDE.md` is a high-leverage configuration point for Claude Code. Learning how to write a good `CLAUDE.md` (or `AGENTS.md`) is a key skill for agent-enabled software engineering.
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Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI
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